Playwright, Artistic Director

Howard Meyer’s characters behave in surprising, recognizable, inevitable, sometimes even tragic fashion; we understand their yearnings, want the best for them, and dread the unfolding trauma. His dialogue is enormously fresh and alive.

Howard’s newest play, SENESCENCE, was a semifinalist for the 2017 O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference.

Axial Theatre presented MAYBE NEVER FELL 11/4-20 2016 directed by Jenn Haltman and featuring Spencer Aste, Sara Hogrefe, David Lanson and Dominic Russo. The play was then presented as a Staged Reading in January 2017 at the historic Cherry Lane Theatre

How Many Generations does it take to unburden yourself from the guilt and atrocities of the past?

Here is the Axial commercial for the play:

25th Frame/Wandering Monk Productions re-optioned Howard’s play Lost In Paradise for a motion picture.

Howard is one of the 2015 recipients of the ArtsWestchester “50 fo5 50” award, honoring 50 artists that have made significant contributions to the Westchester County, NY artistic landscape.

Howard’s play, Loss, was commissioned by Half Moon Theatre, resident at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park and presented in their spring 2016 Ten Minute Play Festival.

Paint Made Flesh, was selected for the 2015 Last Frontier Theatre Festival and was a semi finalist at the O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference. The play received its first full read at The Lark Play Development Center on April 8th, 2014 with Meredith Autry, Rasha Zamamiri, and Mike Crane reading. Jenn Haltman directed.

A workshop of RADIANCE was presented at the Drama League March 16-20, 2015, directed by John Michael Diresta and produced and cast by the Jenn Haltman- Ella Dershowitz, Gilbert Cruz, Lou Liberatore, Sheilagh Weymouth.

Here is a what the Journal News had to say:

“Hopi kachina dolls, radioactive waste, the Vietnam War and substance abuse all factor into “Radiance,” the fertile new play by Howard Meyer…As compelling as the play’s environmental and other social themes may be, the poisonous interpersonal relationships are more captivating… Describing “Radiance” as a study in codependence, or the pathology of enabling behavior, makes it sound mundane and depressing. Yet in a theatrical space populated by talented artists, noxious material emanating from stricken souls can be downright salubrious.”

-John. P. McCarthy for the Journal News

The play was a two time semi-finalist (2011, 2012) at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and a finalist for the 2012 Hormel New Works Festival at the Phoenix Theatre and Orlando Shakespeare’s Playlabs.

Howard is featured in the book Those Who Walk With Fire, by John R. Daubney. For more information, visit www.johndaubney.com